The Gainsbourg house will be accessible on September 20, 2023. This is a place where the famous interpreter of Lemon Incest lived for 22 years. Many treasures linked to the artist will be exhibited there.. Charlotte Gainsbourg, his beloved daughter, invested a lot in the project of making this 130 m² mansion, located at 5 bis, rue de Verneuil, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris accessible. A few days before the opening, she is promoting it and taking the opportunity to share some personal anecdotes. Wednesday September 14, 2023, she returned to our colleagues at Madame Figaro on his still very intense relationship with his father, Serge Gainsbourg: “Sébastien Merlet, who is the scientific curator of Maison Gainsbourg, and Anatole Maggiar, the director of content and programming, carried out the work of archaeologists and I discovered a lot of things thanks to them. It was sometimes even complicated because they gave me everything to see, to validate, to look at even though I was sometimes not ready at all. I still have a very superficial relationship with my father and his work, for example I refused for a long time to listen to his songs, watch his videos…“she explained.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: “I sometimes pretended”
During these memory reconstruction sessions, Yvan Attal’s wife even used avoidance strategies to preserve herself. “I even sometimes pretended to know what Sébastien and Anatole were telling me or pretending to read the documents they brought me. I love knowing things about my father but I don’t want them imposed on methat’s why I’ve never read one of his biographies before.” But today, Charlotte Gainsbourg is determined to face her past, and even to share part of it with her father’s fans. “At the very beginning, I said to myself, how can I visit rue de Verneuil? I thought in silence because that’s how I had experienced this place since my father’s death and I didn’t want there to be his voice , let it be a ghost. I wanted to tell my memories, my childhood vision”, confided the daughter of Jane Birkin to our colleagues. Adding: “It’s like today I gave myself exclusivity.”